Ritu Kumari Mishra* & Rashmi Mishra
University Department of Botany, DSPMUniversity, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Received : 13th December, 2023 ; Revised : 14th January, 2024
DOI:-https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14403279
Abstract– Forest fire acts as a deadly cause for destroying homes, wildlife habitat, timber and polluting the air with emissions harmful to human health. According to system Forest survey of India, the fire in Simlipal biosphere, Odisha topped the list of forest fire incidents with 6627 fire spot which started in 24th February 2021. On 13th March 2021 government of Odisha has claimed that the situation is in control and forest fire is completely contained. Causes of forest fire may be natural or manmade. Many forest fire start from natural causes such as lightening which set trees on fire. However, rain extinguishes such fires without causing much damage. High atmospheric temperatures and dryness (low humidity) offer favorable circumstances for a fire to start. As fire burn carbon stored in trees and other vegetation combust, releasing carbon dioxides and other potent greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrous oxide into the atmosphere. This means that as the fire increases so do emissions. This building up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is rapidly warming the planet. Global warming is contributing to forest fires and those fires are stoking further heating so that we can say that it is deadly cycle. Climate change is expected to alter forest boundaries and types as well as impact productivity, species population and migration occurrence of pest and diseases and the capacity for forest to regenerates. Observations over the past 20 year show that the increasing intensity and spread of forest fire in Asia were largely related to rise in temperature and decline in precipitation in combination with an increasing intensity of land use (IPCC 2017).
Key words: Forest fire, global warming, greenhouse gases, IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change
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